A spokesman for Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsiya told RIA Novosti the pilot tried to perform a go-around after an aborted landing, and the plane crashed. The Kazan airport was closed following the fatal crash.

Russia has had a series of deadly plane crashes in recent years. In December a Russian-made Tupolev plane veered off the end of Moscow's Vnukovo airport and slammed into the slope of a nearby highway. Five people were killed in that crash.

In 2011 a plane crash in Yaroslavl killed 44 people, including an entire professional hockey team. Russian investigators have found that pilots who were involved in two recent airplane crashes that killed 10 and 47 people were intoxicated during the flight.